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>DISCONNECT</H1
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>Name</H2
>DISCONNECT&nbsp;--&nbsp;terminate a database connection</DIV
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>DISCONNECT <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>connection_name</I
></TT
>
DISCONNECT [ CURRENT ]
DISCONNECT DEFAULT
DISCONNECT ALL</PRE
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>     <TT
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>DISCONNECT</TT
> closes a connection (or all
     connections) to the database.
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>Parameters</H2
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><TT
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><I
>connection_name</I
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>        A database connection name established by
        the <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CONNECT</TT
> command.
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><TT
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>CURRENT</TT
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>        Close the <SPAN
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>"current"</SPAN
> connection, which is either
        the most recently opened connection, or the connection set by
        the <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SET CONNECTION</TT
> command.  This is also
        the default if no argument is given to
        the <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DISCONNECT</TT
> command.
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><TT
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>DEFAULT</TT
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>        Close the default connection.
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><TT
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>ALL</TT
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>        Close all open connections.
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>int
main(void)
{
    EXEC SQL CONNECT TO testdb AS DEFAULT USER testuser;
    EXEC SQL CONNECT TO testdb AS con1 USER testuser;
    EXEC SQL CONNECT TO testdb AS con2 USER testuser;
    EXEC SQL CONNECT TO testdb AS con3 USER testuser;

    EXEC SQL DISCONNECT CURRENT;  /* close con3          */
    EXEC SQL DISCONNECT DEFAULT;  /* close DEFAULT       */
    EXEC SQL DISCONNECT ALL;      /* close con2 and con1 */

    return 0;
}</PRE
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>     <TT
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>DISCONNECT</TT
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><A
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>CONNECT</A
>, <A
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>SET CONNECTION</A
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